Fans of the inexpensive sandwiches on offer at the Earl of Sandwich might heave a sigh when they walk past its shuttered location now in Downtown Disney. (Photo by Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register /SCNG)

Today’s council majority has been responding to complaints from residents that the city kowtows too much to the Walt Disney Co. and provides too many tax breaks. Disney recently responded by offering to tear up its tax break agreements with the city — which would have the added benefit for Disney of making the company no longer a target of a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage in Anaheim.

Asked if the Earl of Sandwich would be reopening, Disney officials said only that they were considering a number of options for the site but declined to comment further.

Computer screenshot taken on Aug. 28, 2018 of the jobs listing for the Earl of Sandwich restaurant at Downtown Disney, which closed in June 2018. Screenshot taken by Marla Jo Fisher

Earl of Sandwich at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, June 1, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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Earl of Sandwich at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, June 1, 2018. The restaurant is closing in late June to make way for a new hotel. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Earl of Sandwich at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, June 1, 2018. The restaurant is closing in late June to make way for a new hotel. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Earl of Sandwich at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, June 1, 2018. The restaurant is closing in late June to make way for a new hotel. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The Earl of Sandwich was one of the most popular restaurants in Downtown Disney, in part because it served tasty food at affordable prices while most neighboring restaurants were quite pricey. Devotees mourned its closure in June, as the new hotel was expected to be constructed on its site starting in July.

Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive, at least so far. She now writes the Frumpy Middle-Age Mom humor column that appears in the Orange County Register weekly. Due to her status as the cheapest person alive, she also writes about deals and bargains for the Register, including her Cheapo Travel column which also runs in newspapers around the country. When she's not having a nervous breakdown, she's usually traveling somewhere cheaply and writing about it.